The Life Path of V. P. Vorobiov througt the Lens of Time (Dedicated to the 220th Anniversary of the Department of Human Anatomy)

Abstract

Volodymyr Petrovych Vorobiov (June 15 [27], 1876, Odesa – October 31, 1937, Kharkiv) was a prominent domestic scientist, anatomist, and аcademician of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1934), as well as the only professor to receive the title of "Merited Professor" (1924). He developed stereomorphological methods of dissection and was the author of original and widely known scientific works, textbooks, and manuals on human anatomy, including the first domestic five-volume"Atlas of Human Anatomy" (1938–1942). Volodymyr Petrovych studied and spent nearly his entire life working in Kharkiv, where he chaired the departments of anatomy at the medical faculty of the Imperial Kharkiv University and the Kharkiv Women's Medical Institute. From 1919 to 1921, he temporarily worked in Bulgaria, where he established and led the Department of Anatomy at the Medical Academy in Sofia. After returning, he chaired the Department of Anatomy at the Kharkiv Medical Institute (now the Kharkiv National Medical University) until the end of his life. Simultaneously, in the 1930s, he was the scientific director of the Ukrainian Institute of Experimental Medicine